While everyone in town was experiencing rush hour traffic, my drive home was a lot less stressful.  Raindrops were falling and I could hear them on the windshield.

The ditches along the township road near the Strathcona Wilderness Centre were filled with snowmobile tracks.  Just east of the SWC driveway I noticed a dark object moving in the ditch.  I slowed as I approached and realized that it was a muskrat.  The little fellow was scurrying at top speed along one of the tracks in the snow.  It brought a smile to my face.

I got to my turn off and slowly made my way south; always wary of wildlife that may be in the area.  This morning I saw a moose carcass in the ditch.  The big guy got hit sometime during the night.  It was a sad sight.  

This evening I was the lucky one to see not one but two beautiful, live moose resting in the trees.  Their dark bodies were visible against the white blanket of snow on the forest floor.  Neither one attempted to move when I stopped.

I pulled into the driveway to find the deer had emptied the bird feeders in the backyard.  Their tracks came right up to the feeder closest to the house where they tried climbing a snowbank to reach a tray feeder.

My drive home was peaceful, calm and filled with the Mother Nature's beauty.